Friday, August 15, 2014

TEXSOM, the nation’s largest wine education conference, celebrated its ten-year anniverary, and Joelle Cousins, who works at Austin’s Red Room Lounge, was named the best Texas sommelier in 2014, the sixth time an Austinite has taken home the honor.

Amy Ferguson, who has lived in Hawaii for decades now but was instrumental in the development of the Southwestern cuisine culinary movement, talks about reading “Larousse Gastronomique” as a kid, encountering celebrity at a young age, and that time Julia Child kindly told her “you don’t know anything.”

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

West Texas isn’t the first place you’d think of in association with craft beer, but the Big Bend Brewing Company, established nearly two years ago in Alpine, found that the demand far exceeded even its optimistic expectations.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Central Market Wine Week is happening July 9 - July 15th, so we started thinking about our favorite food and wine combinations, and there are a lot. We’ve compiled a quick list that mixes old classics and fresh new ideas, in seven pairings perfect to complete the entire wine filled week.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

The sweet onion! The mild pepper! The maroon carrot! These and countless other tasty fruits and vegetables wouldn’t exist but for the scientists of the Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year.

Monday, June 9, 2014

At Central Market we believe that food goes with, well, almost everything, and beer is very high on our list of what goes well with food. So, in honor of Beer Fest happening June 11 – June 24, we thought we would share some of our favorite food and beer pairings.

Friday, May 16, 2014

This month’s pick is made from Sangiovese, a well known Italian red grape variety. But in the spirit of the season, this particular wine is a lighter version of red wine—a classic example of a rich rosé.